JACOBToday is the final ruling in the courtroom . Hopefully nothing goes wrong and like Braden and Madeline had planned we will take Evan's by his bull and let him go down the drain like he intended for me.“You look tense,” Madeline said, walking towards me.“I just want today to go well. I'm so done fighting for my own company,” I said to her. It's strange how we have gotten close in a matter of weeks.*You will always be fighting for your company,” she said, trying to assure me, “what makes it easier is the ability to fight every goddamn time,” she smiled.“I hope you are right,” I said to her, looking at her through my side eye.“I'm always right,” she said and we both laughed, “but that's not all the reason,” she said and I cleared my throat.“What do you mean?” I asked her.“You are not just tense because you want this done but because Aurora isn't here yet,” I inhaled deeply and looked at her.“That's not it at all. There is bad blood between her and Copper, I'm guessing she d
JACOBGuilty, guilty, guilty! The chant continued and all of a sudden, the doors of the courtroom were opened, a lot of reporters raced it with their cameras.“What is going on?” The Judge asked, shocked.I glanced at Evans, his head was bent and he was shaking it in defeat.“He brought in the reporter,” Braden said to me.“Guess he thought he was going to win after all,” Cooper said and slammed my shoulder.“Guess, he thought that,” I said with a low smile.“Silence!” The Judge hit his gravel against his desk. “This is a court of law and I will not let it turn to something else!” He yelled.The whole courtroom became silent at once, then the Judge turned to Evan.“Will you rise, Mr. Evans,” he said to him. Evan took about a second to get on his feet then he kept his head down staring at the floorboards.“Does the jury need time to reach a verdict?” The Judge asked.The lead Juror stood up, “no, your honor. We the people of the jury have reached a verdict,” he said, staring bitterly a
JACOBI left her arm and stood in front of her. I knew I wanted to know the truth but hearing it right now, I don't think I want to listen anymore.“Did Dad know?” I asked her. She didn't say a word, she just stood there.“I asked you a question!” I yelled at her, she flinched and started crying. That's not going to stop me from asking my question.“What are you doing, Mom?” Amy asked, “crying isn't going to solve anything, you talking right now is,”“No, your Dad didn't know,” she said with her head down.“That will not cut it,” I said to her, pointing a finger in front of her, “you decided your first son is more important than me or Amy and you decided to go against me. What kind of a mother does that?” I asked, walking to and fro the entrance of the house.“I was only doing what any mother would do, look out for her child's future,” she said in tears.“Why about our future,” I pointed at myself and Amy, “aren't we your children?” I asked her.“No, you are not!” She said and it felt
JACOB“What the hell is he doing here?” I asked Christina. It still feels so weird that she isn't my mother.“Wow, we still look the same,” Grey said, walking down the stairs. “It really is uncanny,” I scoffed.“What's uncanny is you being here after what your mother just pulled,” I pointed my fingers at me.“You didn't know she wasn't your mother yesterday,” he mocked, “you need to give her the respect she deserves,”“The only thing she deserves is walking out of here alone, not with a police escort,” I said, taking a look at him.His hair was rough, his shirt was unbuttoned and his pants were torn in different places. I think I'm getting the hang of why he isn't part of our father's will.“My mother is walking out of here with what she is owed,” he said straight to my face.“Then you are not hearing me!” I roared, “she is happy to be walking out of here at all,” his face showed a bit of fear in my outburst but he quickly masked it.“Don't let them do this, Grey,” Christiana said, ho
AURORA“Come on, Carina. We have to go now!” That's the fifth time I'm calling her to get out of her room.“You still haven't told me where we are going!” She yelled and I scoffed, loud enough so she could hear.“Well, if we had left earlier, I could have told you,” I said to her. I got a message from my phone and brought it out of my camp bag.“Where are you guys? Madeline is here already,” the message read. I rolled my eyes at it.“You didn't exactly tell me where we are going, you just said pack for a slight camping trip,” she said, entering the living room.“What are you wearing?” I asked, trying to keep myself from laughing.“Something to keep myself from the cold. It is camping after all,” she said, walking towards the entrance. She wore a big baggy hoodie and her hair looked untidy. Like she hasn't washed it in a while.Hopefully she doesn't kill me when we get to where we are going and she sees a certain somebody.“It's not entirely a campsite,” I stopped talking when I saw M
AURORAImmediately Claire spoke, I took my stuff from the trunk of the car and went into the lake house. “Aurora,” I heard Madeline call my name but I needed space. I need to be alone right about now. “I'm fine, Madeline. I just want to be alone,” I said, searching for a room to be in. “You can take the middle one,” she said and I nodded. I walked into the room and closed the door behind me. I dropped to the ground and let the tears I have been holding for a while drop down my cheeks. Every word, Carina said out there replayed in my head like she was sitting beside me. Is it really true what she said, because I have the tendency of having bad relationships so I'm emitting that feeling to the people around me? I got up from the ground and laid on the evenly smooth bed, I brought one of the pillows close to me and screamed inside of it. I came here to surprise my friend and protect my company but it seems everything doesn't work in my favor anymore. “You are strong Aurora,” I said
AURORAIt's been weeks since Carina gave her…, I don’t even know what to call it. We have practically been living separate lives since then and she is not making any of this easier. The whole company seems to know something is up between the both of us.Fortunately, there is one good thing happening in the company right now. We have been able to buy more than half the shares Kent and Charles stole, they still think Andre is on their side, everything is moving smoothly in a way.“Aurora,” I didn’t need to turn to know who that voice belongs to. Is the one person I haven’t been able to prove his loyalty.“Spencer,” I turned around with a fake smile on my lips. In the chaos that has happened these past weeks, he has been in Africa overseeing our new branches in some of the countries. Thankfully they are all going well and there have been no issues.“I have missed you, Aurora,” he pulled me into his arms for a hug with his all over my back and shoulder. I felt so open and touched.“I thin
CARINAI could feel a lot of wet surfaces around me, one me. I tried to move but my body didn't let me.The sound of ambulances filled my ears and I couldn't shut it out.“What's happening?!” I yelled but nothing or nobody seems to be giving me an answer.“Aurora,” I called out to the one person who I know will save me but she didn't answer as well.I lifted my fingers up and touched the liquid that was flowing down from my head.“Oh my God,” I cried out, looking at the blood on my fingers. I looked up to see the car above me and my body on the bare floor.“Ma'am, you were just in an accident, don't try to move!” I heard someone yell but I can't tell who it was.“Where is Aurora?” I cried out.“We are getting you out right now,” I couldn't feel a thing but I was brought out of the wreckage of the car.“You need to find my friend,” I said to the person standing about me.“We are doing everything we can ma'am,” she said and I looked at her.“What do you mean by that? Where is Aurora?!”